Published on July 21, 2014
By Dr. Pankaj Aggarwal, M.D. (Hom.)
Homoeopathy is branch of medicine remains doubtful in respect of its efficacy, its scientificity in general and in various diseases in particular. Homoeopathy is a holistic way of treatment whatever may be the name of disease. This system understands each disease holistically (mind-body-spirit) and tailors the treatment for each individual having disease. So, homoeopathy treats the patient who has disease instead disease the patient has. This actually reflects lots of wisdom in the field of Medicine. It implies that any individual gets a disease according to his personality—which means traits and characters achieved from heredity and environment (psychobiological and psychosocial). Homoeopathic doctor has to understand each disease in which kind of personality it will appear. This is the reason why some are susceptible to one disease and others are for some other disease.
In my experience I understood about Diabetes Mellitus (type 2), DM 2, specially the personality inclined to have this disease. DM 2 is a somatic disease which has psychobiological and psychosocial dimensions. The recent concept of PNI (PSYCHO-NEURO-IMMUNOLOGY) has proved how it all happens in humans. The relationship between psychiatric and endocrinological illnesses is important because of shared biological background. Blood glucose level and its regulation directly affect brain and mental functions and conversely blood glucose is affected from mental and emotional changes. Many researchers have shown the relation of personality and glucose regulation.
These traits and characters are:
• Anger.
• Anxiety, helpfulness, understands the preferences and needs of others as well as their own and tries to cooperate with others. High antagonism, disagreeableness.
• Depression, unhappy, passive, harm avoidance. Everyone feels sad now and then. When sadness goes on for months and losses the interest in things used to make him happy often with changes in sleep and eating patterns.
• Fatigability, tend to be more inactive live sedentarily and gain weight. History of tuberculosis (TB) is one of the reasons for easy fatigability, a constitutional trait go to next generation of tubercular family though the modern medicine considers TB a infectious illness only.
This disease, for the purpose of treatment is divided into different stages:
Prediabetes: Often this stage wasn’t showing any signs but recently they are isolated as below: